ISHIMITSU INDUSTRY is the number one company in Japan (55% market share) in the field of throttle shafts, a part of the air-intake unit of automobiles used to regulate its opening. The company produces more than 170 types of throttle shafts with different diameters and lengths for various uses.

With the recent development of environment-friendly engines of higher combustion efficiency and increased demands for throttle shafts with more functions and of higher quality, Ishimitsu has been steadily expanding its market share. The key to the company's success is the careful refining of product quality based on inimitable precision cutting technologies. With machine tools that are custom-built and based on skilled operators' know-how, the company realizes the inimitable qualities of other manufacturers in roundness and co-axiality (throttle shafts require a tolerance of 6 m for outer diameter and 5 m coaxiality).
Through daily efforts for improvement and cost reduction, the company has learned how to propose short delivery times and low costs for customers, well ahead of their needs.
In the field of human resource development, Ishimitsu systematically works through a unique education program centered on employee function and task as well as personalized management by objectives. These efforts involve the whole company; in the in-house training course on NC machine tools, the President himself, with an engineering background, teaches the young employees.
Customers appreciate these activities and ask Ishimitsu to make prototypes for new products. A creative group of specialists for precision cutting is winning customers with proprietary technologies-this is what ISHIMITSU INDUSTRY wants to be.

With the World's automotive industry steadily growing, Ishimitsu has expanded its activities into the World market. The company built a plant in the Czech Republic in 2002, along with the operations of Japanese auto manufacturers, and started delivering their products to Japanese automakers in North America, in 2003. Other overseas automakers are also among its customers.

Currently, the company is pursuing a management plan called " Global 15 " targeting a domestic share of 70% and a World share of 15%, as well as annual sales of 4 billion yen for 2006. It is also making company-wide efforts to integrate the domestic production functions, now dispersed around other plants, to the leading-edge Mie Plant, and to make it Japan's largest shaft plant.